PREVENTION AND CONTROL CORE

范德比尔特大学和梅哈里医学院（MMC）已加入我们的人才和资源， 预防和控制（P&C）核心，促进重要的，创新的糖尿病相关的翻译 research. P&C核心由两个单位组成，一个是临床结果和行为科学（COBS）单位，另一个是 社区外展和健康差异股。这些单位一起提供独特的服务 沿着翻译研究的连续体。我们的工作旨在实现一个共同的目标，即 将糖尿病研究进展转化为临床或社区实践。我们工作的重要组成部分 了解并减少种族和民族健康差异。P&C Core及其两个单元提供 为外部资助的糖尿病相关转化研究的研究者提供服务， 以下领域：护理创新、社区参与、文化敏感/胜任干预， 临床试验，质量改进，质量保证，卫生服务研究，临床和心理社会 流行病学、物理和社会环境以及基于社区的参与性研究。期间 在当前的资助周期中，COBS单位成功地从一个被资助进行 糖尿病患者教育和心理社会方面的研究项目， 支持外部资助的研究。与此同时，COHD股同样发展成为以下方面的领导者： 研究种族和民族健康差异。虽然我们将继续支持这些研究领域， 我们还通过招募新的研究人员， 增加调查人员和增加新的服务。P&C核心资源使调查人员能够增加 他们可以利用的人才和资源的质量，从而利用有限的资源。开幕 2005年，范德比尔特Eskind糖尿病诊所提供了额外的转化研究机会。 在P&C Core的支持下，研究人员对患者的识字和算术能力 影响糖尿病护理，有关因素涉及糖尿病控制复发，以及社区如何 影响糖尿病护理的因素。此外，P&C核心继续加强职业发展， 范德比尔特和梅哈里的初级调查员，其中许多人得到了DRTC飞行员的支持， 可行性补助金机制。P&C Core继续在整个范德比尔特DRTC中发挥不可或缺的作用 活动包括其研讨会系列，其年度糖尿病日，培训计划和领导。P&C 核心还参与与其他机构和DRTC的合作努力，以提高 改善糖尿病相关转化研究服务的获取。

Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College (MMC) have joined talents and resources in our Prevention and Control (P&C) Core, which promotes important, innovative diabetes-related translational research. The P&C core consists of two units, a Clinical Outcomes & Behavioral Science (COBS) Unit and a Community Outreach & Health Disparities (COHD) Unit. Together these units provide distinctive services along the translational research continuum. Our work is designed to achieve a comon goal, namely to translate diabetes research advances into clinical or community practice. Important components of our work are understanding and reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. The P&C Core and its two units provide services to investigators with externally funded, diabetes-related translational research addressing the following areas: innovations in care, community engagement, culturally-sensitive/competent interventions, clinical trials, quality improvement, quality assurance, health services research, clinical and psychosocial epidemiology, physical and social environments, and community-based participatory research. During the current funding cycle, the COBS Unit made a successful transition from a group that was funded to conduct research projects in the area of patient education and psychosocial aspects of diabetes to a core designed to support externally funded research. At the same time, the COHD Unit similarly evolved to be a leader in research on racial and ethnic health disparities. While we will continue our support of these research areas, we have also greatly expanded the P&C's support services for health services research by recruiting additional investigators and adding new services. P&C Core resources allowed investigators to increase the quality of talent and resources to which they had access, thus leveraging limited resources. The opening of the Vanderbilt Eskind Diabetes Clinic in 2005 is providing additional translational research opportunities. With P&C Core support, investigators made significant findings about how patient literacy and numeracy impact diabetes care, about factors involved the relapse of diabetes control, and about how community factors impact diabetes care. In addition, the P&C Core continues to enhance the career development of junior investigators at Vanderbilt and Meharry, many of whom were supported by the DRTC's Pilot and Feasibility Grant mechanism. The P&C Core continues to play an integral role in overall Vanderbilt DRTC activities including its seminar series, its annual Diabetes Day, training programs, and leadership. The P&C Core is also engaged in collaborative efforts with other institutions and DRTCs to raise the visibility of and improve access to translational, diabetes-related research services.